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Quotes About Immediate

The key is to get lots of reasons, or better yet, strong enough reasons, why the change should take place immediately, not someday in the future. If you are not driven to make the change now, then you don't really have leverage.
~ Anthony Robbins
First, let's be clear: there are really only two general categories of traditional annuities: immediate annuities and deferred annuities.
~ Anthony Robbins
If the pleasure is immediate and the pain distant, or if the profit is immediate and the punishment distant. This is the kind of thing that moves weak-willed people, and there is no human impulse that is not liable to moral weakness.
~ Aristotle
You've got to live in the moment. Do what has to be done right now. Prepare for what will need to be done later.
~ Shirlee McCoy
When shall we live if not now?
~ Shirley Jackson
Not only has there never before been a society so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its immediate past, but there has never before been a society that is able to access the immediate past so easily and so copiously.
~ Simon Reynolds
Blessed be they who are not Patriots and Idealists, and who do not feel they must dash right in and Do Something About It, something so immediately important that all doubters must be liquidated—tortured—slaughtered! Good old murder, that since the slaying of Abel by Cain has always been the new device by which all oligarchies and dictators have, for all future ages to come, removed opposition!
~ Sinclair Lewis
Examples of truths known to us by immediate consciousness, are our own bodily sensations and mental feelings. I know directly, and of my own knowledge, that I was vexed yesterday, or that I am hungry to-day.
~ John Stuart Mill
I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.
~ Elvis Costello
The girls? We sacrificed them to the water spirit, sir. We used their bodies as an offering. They cried and carried on like crazy." Kien's scouts drew their bayonets. Lien held them back. "Stop! Don't. Perhaps these guys might also want to cry like crazy as the girls did before they died. They won't want to die immediately, will they?
~ B?o Ninh
Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility.
~ Jimmy Breslin
I'm very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is - I recently got the iPhone, which is very exciting - I can't be doing with reading manuals. I want it to work immediately and to do what I want it to do.
~ Kimberley Nixon
It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.
~ Rodney King
I think I definitely enjoy recording, but I think it's more fun to go out and perform live, because it's like instant gratification, you know? You feel the response immediately.
~ Chris Daughtry
Immediate, simultaneous connection between the audience and a performer is crucial to me. It's why I do what I do. Other things, like recording, are satisfying, but they're not the same. I love the connection I get with the audience when I'm sitting behind that piano.
~ Jason Robert Brown
They're a great audience, kids. They actually respond. They don't have the references that adults have, so everything is immediate. It's always interesting to see what they react to in whatever I'm working on at the moment. And they don't even want to discuss why. That's a lesson to remember: My son doesn't care about why.
~ Chris Cornell
Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.'
~ Tarana Burke
I usually just write a song and record it that day, and then that's kind of it. I'm not very good at going back and editing and tinkering it. It's pretty immediate.
~ Arlo Parks
The number of things that can happen to a child online are just as many as can happen to a child in the playground, only it's more immediate and they have the whole world at their finger tips.
~ Dido Harding
Hey Yog, what time is it? You mean right now?
~ Mickey Mantle
If I may answer briefly, and perhaps clumsily, but after long reflection: philosophy will be unable to effect any immediate change in the current state of the world. This is true not only of philosophy but of all purely human reflection and endeavor. Only a god can save us.
~ Martin Heidegger
Thus music is as immediate an objectification and copy of the whole will as the world itself is
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
now, and it's not the one that
~ Stephanie Rowe
These are the days that matter NOW!
~ Levon Poe